Decir amigo

A man shows up at his childhood friend's funeral. As he listens to the priest, family members, and others who speak, he remembers the life they shared together, the games, the celebrations, the little betrayals, and what happened to make them complete strangers. He observes the attendees and tries to imagine how everything would have happened if... Carmen Rotger's writing is electrifying: it grabs you from the first pages and doesn't let you go until, without realizing it, it transforms you. Acidic, almost cynical, difficult to forget: a first novel that does not pretend to be just a novel, but, as seems to be the author's habit, is an operation of montage and hybridization that is rarely achieved. How grateful I am that Carmen executes it so skillfully, because this is a frenetic and urgent book, one we will return to again and again, eager to witness its much-needed and poetic honesty. Estefanía Arista